Example sentences of "[verb] for [det] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're coming over so that we can discuss the demand that the women 's movement is making for free contraception and abortion on demand , and the strategy that our local women 's group might develop in struggling for that at a local level , how we relate to other women and groups of women in the area , how the abortion issue relates to other ones . |
| 2 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 3 | Closed-circuit televisions are now being used for those with a little sight left . |
| 4 | One quality of backbench life which is distracting for those with a professional or commercial training is that it lacks coherence , and there is an aimlessness which is debilitating . |
| 5 | Marginal plants can benefit considerably from this treatment , but it should not be provided for those of a rampant nature . |
| 6 | In answer to ‘ what can I offer them ? ’ a short explanation that every member receives the Annual Report and 3 editions of Medau News which with postage accounts for half of a full membership fee , the remaining money goes towards administration expenses . |
| 7 | The history of social action accounts for this to a considerable extent and all students of social administration must turn to some reading of the development of social policy . |
| 8 | It 's been started with a local council grant , and caters for some of an estimated one thousand people who would otherwise have to eat from rubbish bins … or simply go hungry . |
| 9 | This caters for those with a combined telephone / press a button to send a FAX machine . |
| 10 | Parents had fought for this as a local resource to prevent the need for children to be placed in long-stay placements far from home . |
| 11 | I do think it is scandalous thing neglecting your educational system and you 're going to pay for this for a hundred years , because riches just come by learning , that 's all . |
| 12 | The inflated snobbery of purchasing a ritual traditionally reserved for those of a higher social rank did not appear until the very end of the eighteenth century ; conversely , it was a dissatisfied middle class which , towards the close of the nineteenth century , ushered in a less complicated and confusing street procession . |
| 13 | Rather than risk a clash between the Cha and Legislative Council models , China has opted to muddy the waters by indicating support for proposals unexpectedly advanced last month by Lo Tak-shing , of the New Hong Kong Alliance , for a ‘ bicameral ’ legislature , in which directly elected seats would account for half of a single house . |